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Re: Is this for real?
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 30 May 2004 22:27:51 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Powell wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Mark Chittenden wrote:
> > Found this while browsing Brickshelf. Supposed to be from a German LEGO catalog,
> > but this castle's elements look SOOO un-LEGO.
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> It looks like Tyco. No LEGO on the studs you can see, and what looks like 1/2
> thickness plates. This could be a construct using a variety of bits & pieces
> (megablocks, Tyco, Lego), but I don't think it is lego, and I really doubt
> Duplo. Think of how big it would be if each of those is a duplo stud wide.
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> James Powell
Yes, and how big the margin would be. It could quite easily be real DUPLO,
designed to compete with the Fisher-Price Castle. As far as its not having
"LEGO" on the studs, most of them look hollow as DUPLO tends to be; furthermore,
those elements simply do not exist in *any* known building system which would
tend to militate against it being a spoof.
Besides, don't you remember the initial response to early reports of
KNIGHONICLE™ figures? It was not dissimilar. I would wager these are the real
deal.
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| (...) It wouldn't shock me. But, if you look at the castle front, it is 32 studs (regular) across the front of the tan baseplate. That'd make it something like 48 studs across the whole front. That seems quite big to me. (mind you, it is a $130-150 (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) It looks like Tyco. No LEGO on the studs you can see, and what looks like 1/2 thickness plates. This could be a construct using a variety of bits & pieces (megablocks, Tyco, Lego), but I don't think it is lego, and I really doubt Duplo. Think (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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